Monthly Archives: October 2023

The Qakbot (aka Qbot) first-stage malware operation is still kicking, even after the “Operation Duck Hunt” raid by law enforcement eviscerated its infrastructure a few weeks ago. It was recently seen distributing the Ransom Knight ransomware and the Remcos backdoor remote access Trojan (RAT) via phishing emails. Evidently, a massive takedown of Qakbot’s botnet infrastructure […]

Toxoplasma gondii. Credit: Wikipedia Researchers have identified a “guard mechanism” for a protein which attacks microbes in infected cells, opening the possibility of new treatments for toxoplasma, chlamydia, tuberculosis and even cancer. A study, led by the University of Birmingham and published in Science has discovered the lock and key mechanism that controls the attack […]

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure—and differences in the focus of immune responses will help scientists understand how to optimize vaccines in the future to provide broad protection. A new study has found that people differ in how vulnerable […]

A new study has found people can differ in how vulnerable they are to different mutations in emerging variants of COVID-19, depending on previous infections and vaccination. This is because the variant of Covid a person was first exposed to determines how well their immune system responds to different parts the virus, and how protected […]